Quote by Gaston Bachelard
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we d

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event. – Gaston Bachelard

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Children
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. – Gaston Bachelard

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Sleep
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. – Gaston Bachelard

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Nobility doesnt lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self. – Hindu Spiritual

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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. – Oswald Chambers

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Progress

Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. – Proverb

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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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